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 Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:54 am
Hinata chuckled inwardly as Alder appeared in front of her by about four stumps. He was improving at an almost alarming rate, but it didn't really surprise her in the least. After all, just a year ago they had been unseated officers - and he had given her quite a hard time in that tournament.
"You know, you could just flash-step to the end right now," her Zanpaktou said in a bored manner. "Isn't it kind of stupid for a Captain to lose against a Vice-Captain in a race?"
"Yeah, but that would be unfair, after all the effort he's put in. Plus, I said I'd go at a Vice-Captain's pace. I've already pushed it, I can't just suddenly use a Captain's Shunpo to reach the end," she argued exasperatedly.
"But it would be HIS fault that he was going faster than an average Vice-Captain."
Laughing, Hinata shook her head, before taking off from the fiftieth stump and using one last flash-step to land on top of the rock, touching down a millisecond after Alder had leapt for it.
"You know, you could just pretend you won. It was too close - there's no way he could tell."
"Harikaze!" the Captain said reproachfully, appalled by the suggestion. "Hey... Alder - up here! Aren't you tired at all?" She grinned down at her trainee. "Guess who won?"
(( A squadron of Red Arrows just flew past my window -?! ))
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:21 pm
(WTF? That's....messed up. O_o)
Alder looked up at the captain, noticing that she was on the rock. Remaining optimistic, the Vice Captain merely chuckled, "I'm pretty sure I did, captain. If I recall, your reiatsu didn't show up in that position until after I'd touched the rock, proving that I had beaten the speed you'd decided to use. Though it's obvious you could've beaten me if you had REALLY wanted to." He said with a chuckle, deciding to practice a bit more before he proclaimed himself to be perfected with the art. Alder aimed for the top of a tall tree, and, with a single Shunpo, appeared at the top of the tree flawlessly, having traveled a distance of nearly twenty five feet. "I'd fancy myself skilled enough at the art! He yelled to Hinata from his perch on the tree. With another Shunpo, Alder was down to the ground again next to the Captain, waiting patiently for her instructions.
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Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:52 am
Watching carefully as Alder flash-stepped towards the point of a pine-tree and landed perfectly on the topmost branch, Hinata felt a sense of achievement. At least she could teach.
"It might be nothing to do with your teaching abilities. He's just a natural at Shunpo, that's all," Harikaze commented snidely, bursting her happy bubble.
Muttering vehemently under her breath, the disgruntled Captain blocked out her Zanpaktou and focused instead on Alder, who had returned to the base of the rock.
"Well, at least you're optimistic," she said in reply to his comment about being 'skilled enough'. "But you know, Shunpo is something that you can never stop improving on. There's no limit on how fast, or how far you can go." She hopped down from her perch on the rock, then pointed to the distant cliffs, around a mile or so away from their current hilltop. "Once you can go from here to there in one step, come see me and we'll race again - from one side of the Sereitei to the other," she said with an evil glint in her eye. After all, she had not been promoted to Captain for nothing.
Without warning, her senses picked up another spiritual pressure approaching fast. Whipping around, she caught sight of a blur, before a man - clearly a messenger - appeared. Hinata froze as she realised this was not just any old messenger from the Gotei - the man bore the Kazuki crest around his arm, and was offering a letter addressed in fine calligraphy.
"What the -" Reaching out tentatively, she took the letter back. Without a further word, the messenger flash-stepped away, obviously having been instructed not to wait for a reply. She broke the seal, her eyes travelling down the length of the paper, growing more and more exasperated as the text went on. "Well," she said finally, now positively scowling at the signature at the bottom, "it appears I've been summoned to my own Shunpo training session... only I don't think I have a choice, since he said he's going to drag me away round about... now. Well, until next time," she flashed a grin at Alder and waved a goodbye.
It would appear to Alder as if a blur had rushed past the Captain, then both she and the blur had disappeared in less than a second. If he had been looking carefully, he would have seen perhaps a lock of brown hair, or the edge of a red silk scarf. And if he had REALLY been paying attention, he would have heard a slight chuckle as Hinata's Sensei whisked her away to the impending doom of his training sessions. Only one thought crossed her mind at that moment - how lucky Alder was that he did not have the same Sensei.
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